RETREAT AND PREPARATION: THE PRELUDE TO HUNGARY’S AGE OF REFORM
RETREAT AND PREPARATION: THE PRELUDE TO HUNGARY’S AGE OF REFORM
Author(s): Gábor VermesSubject(s): Civil Society, Political history, Social history, 18th Century, 19th Century, Theory of Literature
Published by: Akadémiai Kiadó
Keywords: civil society; public life; censorship; correspondence; free thought; pluralism;
Summary/Abstract: The functioning of a civil society allows for a variety of possibilities. At the turn of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, enlightened literature and the few journals reached only a small segment of the Hungarian population. Correspondence, a significant part of civil society, compensated for what was missing. The acceptance of free thought and pluralism by the elite prepared the way for their eventual acceptance by a growing number of individuals during the Age of Reform.
- Issue Year: 16/2002
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 263-276
- Page Count: 14
- Language: English
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